A barrage of about 20 blasts rocked districts across Baghdad on Tuesday night, police and witnesses said.
Updated at 2.25 am
BAGHDAD: A barrage of about 20 blasts rocked districts across Baghdad on Tuesday night, police and witnesses said.
Reuters reporters counted more than 10 explosions in the space of a few minutes.
The blasts began around 11 pm.
Police and witnesses reported explosions in the mainly Sunni areas of Doura, Sulaikh and Amiriya and Sadr City, a stronghold of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr.
A fire broke out at an ammunition depot at a US base in southeast Baghdad, setting off a series of explosions, the US military said.
There were no immediate reports on casualties.
Flares were fired into the night sky in the area of the Green Zone, the heavily fortified compound in central Baghdad that houses the Iraqi government and the US embassy.
An explosion ripped through a crowd outside a baker's shop in a Sunni district of the capital, killing at least 10 bystanders, while three more blasts accounted for two dead soldiers and three policemen.
Earlier, police said they had found 110 bodies over two days in a city in the grip of a vicious sectarian war.
Security officials said they had gathered the bodies of 60 murder victims from the city's streets on Monday and 50 more on Tuesday, and the United States military confirmed the deaths of two more of its own soldiers.
The killings come at a time when United Nations and Iraqi officials estimate that more than 100 people are being killed every day in the fighting.
Tuesday's bloodiest bombing took place outside a baker's shop in Dura, a mainly Sunni area of southwest Baghdad that has become a battlefield for the Sunni and Shiite gangs involved in Baghdad's deadly turf war.
Bakers are a common target for Sunni insurgents as the profession tends to be dominated by Shiite workers and some extremists regard it as improper for men rather than women to make bread.
Ten people were killed in the blast and four more wounded. One policeman was killed and four more wounded when their patrol was hit by a booby trap, also in Dura, where there is a major Iraqi and US security presence.
As night fell, a suicide car bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers in northern Baghdad and an improvised explosive device killed two police in the south.
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